Captures the doctrinal debate over the evolving concept of operational art-the critical link between strategy and tactics-in the face of the new complexities of warfare and the demands of irregular operations in the twenty-first century.

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Operational art's origins /Bruce W. Menning -- Napoleon, operational art, and the Jena Campaign / David G. Chandler -- French operational art : 1888-1940 / Robert A. Doughty -- Moltke and the origins of the operational level of war / Michael D. Krause -- Operational thought from Schlieffen to Manstein / Günter R. Roth -- Panzer Group Kleist and the breakthrough in France, 1940 / -- Karl-Heinz Frieser -- The imperial Russian legacy of operational art, 1878-1914 / Bruce W. Menning -- The origins of Soviet operational art, 1917-1936 / Jacob W. Kipp -- Soviet operational art since 1936 : the triumph of maneuver war / David M. Glantz -- Soviet operational logistics, 1939-1990 / Graham H. Turbiville, Jr. -- The origins of operational art / Harold W. Nelson -- Operational art and the Gettysburg Campaign / Arthur V. Grant -- Normandy to Falaise : a critique of Allied operational planning in 1944 / Russell F. Weigley -- After Inch'on : MacArthur's 1950 campaign in North Korea / Stanlis David Milkowski -- The maturation of operational art : Operations DESERT SHIELD and DESERT STORM / John S. Brown.